Ideal D GUI Toolkit

[Peter Williams]

On 21/05/13 17:24, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-05-21 05:32, Tyler Jameson Little wrote:
>
>> As for my opinionated ideals (doesn't affect the overall design much):
>>
>> * no XML (yaml maybe, but XML just isn't user-friendly)
>
> Do people actual "code" in the markup. Isn't that just for a GUI
> building tool.
>

My experience (with PyGTK) is that GUI building tools actually make the 
task harder not easier (once you become familiar with the API).  Of 
course, things may have changed since I last used such a tool but I 
doubt it.

Having said that I have to admit that I've implemented my own "list/tree 
specification" mechanism for that particular job because it made it 
easier to find where to make changes.  In my defence, last time I used 
one of the GUI building tools it contained no support for building lists 
and trees so making my own made sense.

Peter